Sarpy, Montana

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Hardin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 59038. The Survey maps it on the Sarpy School quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Sarpy within Big Horn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1954 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hardin quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Sarpy School quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Lame Deer quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Sarpy (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,402 acres in total. 14 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2017	Natural	13 acres	Crow Agency	EAST FORK SARPY
23 September 2020	Natural	24 acres	Big Horn County	SARPY
8 August 1999	Natural	4.0 acres	Miles City Field Office	RADIOTOWER
5 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Miles City Field Office	BALER
28 August 2017	Natural	201 acres	Billings Field Office	WOLF
11 August 1998	Natural	12 acres	Crow Agency	BEAR
1 August 2014	Natural	4.7 acres	Miles City Field Office	LITTLE WOLF
1 August 2012	Natural	2,000 acres	Crow Agency	EAST FORK

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
McRae (historical)	10.5 miles	6
Muddy	15.8 miles	7
Busby	17.8 miles	8
Old Ford Place	27.8 miles	6
Crow Agency	30.1 miles	7
Dunmore	30.3 miles	12
Garryowen	30.9 miles	7
Kirby	32.0 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1716487. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.